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TRINIDAD : THEN AND NOW. 



bute £18,000 per annum to this company for the 

 privilege of making it its head-quarters in the West 

 Indies. In those days the colony only paid £2,100 

 for carrying its mails. 



Our trip down the islands was devoid of incident 

 except as we came to St. Lucia, St. Vincent and Gre- 

 made we parted with many friends which we had 

 made on board the ocean boat and who were not 

 afraid of the " Wild Irishmen " whom they met for 

 the first and probably the last time. Captain Jack- 

 son transhipped on his way to Antigua, only to arrive 

 in Trinidad six weeks later as private secretary to 

 Mr. (afterwards Sir) Henry Irving who then arrived 

 to assume the reins of government in this colony. 



I may here remark that in after years when Sir 

 Henry Moore Jackson became our governor, I fre- 

 quently contrasted the methods of his administration 

 with those of Mr. Irving and so apparent did the sim- 

 ilarity appear to me, that I occasionally remarked it 

 to people who knew them when they were both to- 

 gether here. It may be that Sir Henry Jackson being 

 so long connected with Mr. Irving, had either uncon- 

 sciously or designedly adopted his methods ; or it 

 may have been the other way, that when private 

 secretary to Mr. Irving he was able to, and did, assist 

 in outlining his policy. I would not, now that they 

 are no longer with us, like to take away the credit 

 from whichever most deserve it, so I will leave it to 

 their separate admirers to decide for themselves ; it 

 may have been either or both. They were both 



